helping women feel more like themselves again!
functional health
the most important question to ask is why your body is creating the symptoms in the first place
Root cause medicine is a term that is lighting up the internet right now. What it means is getting to the root of the problem instead of playing “whack-a-mole” with symptom care. Your body is incredibly intelligent. If it’s speaking to you with symptoms, it’s asking you to figure out what’s going on and fix it. This has been the basis of all health care prior to modern medicine. The problem is, we are trained to evaluate our health by symptoms. It’s the worst way to judge your level of health! Just because a person feels fine doesn’t mean they are fine.
At Elevate Women’s Health Centre, we provide functional health testing to give you as much information about not only your nervous system, but your physiology and genetics. The more pieces of the health puzzle we have for you, the better we can get a clear picture of what’s happening to create the symptoms you’re experiencing. Most importantly, we can create the best solution to help you feel more like yourself again!
healing starts here
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pregnancy chiropractic
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women's chiropractic
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infant chiropractic
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menopause care
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healing starts here - pregnancy chiropractic - women's chiropractic - infant chiropractic - menopause care -
more information = better results
DUTCH testing
DUTCH testing (Dried Urine Test of Complete Hormones) is the best test for understanding what your hormones have been up to over the last few months. Because hormones affect every single system in your body, your entire physiology can change if your hormone levels are unbalanced!
You will receive a kit you can use at home to test your hormones as well as your cortisol activity. Within a few weeks, your results will be available, and we can sit down and discuss what they mean and your best next steps. If you have a naturopath, I am happy to send your ND your results so you can work on hormone therapy should you choose.
nutrigenomic (genetic) testing
I discovered nutrigenomic testing in 2018 when one of my teenage patients was struggling with depression. Her parents were looking for ways to understand and help her without using medication right off the bat. The field of nutrigenomics, which is a form of genetic testing, was just emerging. It is the science of looking at genes that we can change the expression of using lifestyle changes and/or supplements.
I have been using nutrigenomic testing with patients of all ages, mostly in the realm of ADD/ADHD, depression and anxiety. I am now using it to help women understand their chronic pain as well as hormones, neurotransmitters, detoxification pathways and autophagy. Understanding our genetic predisposition can have a huge impact on the choices you can make in your lifestyle that drastically affect whether a gene turns on or turns off. That means it can affect the symptoms you experience at the level of your DNA. How amazing is that??
bloodwork
Bloodwork is essential for understanding your physiology and your overall picture of health. There is so much information we can obtain with the right lab tests. I cannot order bloodwork, but I can help you understand the tests that would be important for you to ask your doctor for. When you know why certain tests are important, it can be easier for you to advocate for yourself when you’re talking to your MD about them.